Vetted Bash Professionals

“Interned at Larsen & Toubro where they built and deployed an agentic RAG document question-answering system to reduce time spent searching documents and improve trustworthiness. Implemented ReAct-style multi-step orchestration with LangChain/LlamaIndex plus evidence-bounded generation, grounding/citations, and rigorous evaluation—cutting latency ~40%, hallucinations ~35%, and unsafe outputs ~40% while collaborating closely with non-technical business/ops stakeholders.”

“Robotics software engineer/researcher focused on perception, SLAM, and sensor fusion, with hands-on experience taking systems from simulation to embedded/real-time deployment. Led transparent-surface (glass) detection using GDNet and achieved a major real-time speedup (~7–9 FPS to ~30 FPS) while preserving >90% recall, and has built ROS-based EKF GPS-IMU fusion plus profiled/optimized Visual SLAM for performance and memory stability. Also brings production-style deployment skills via Docker/Kubernetes orchestration of ML inference services with autoscaling and model update rollouts.”

“ML/AI practitioner in healthcare (Syneos Health) who has deployed production clinical NLP and risk models. Built a BERT-based physician-note information extraction system on Docker + AWS SageMaker (reported ~42% retrieval improvement) and automated retraining/deployment with Airflow and drift detection, while partnering closely with clinicians to drive adoption (reported ~18% readmission reduction).”

“LLM/ML engineer who has shipped an enterprise RAG-based Q&A system (LangChain/LlamaIndex, FAISS + Azure Cognitive Search, GPT-3.5/4 via OpenAI/Azure OpenAI) to production on Docker + Kubernetes/OpenShift, tackling hallucinations, retrieval quality, latency/cost, and RBAC/IAM security. Also partnered with operations leaders to turn manual reporting into an LLM-powered summarization and forecasting dashboard driven by real KPIs and iterative stakeholder feedback.”

“Backend engineer at Cerebrone.ai building cloud-native Flask microservices for an AI-driven automation platform on GCP (Cloud Run/App Engine), including dedicated inference services integrating OpenAI and internal ML pipelines. Demonstrated strong performance and scalability wins across Postgres/SQLAlchemy optimization, multi-tenant (healthcare/HIPAA-grade) data isolation, and high-throughput background processing with Celery/Redis/RabbitMQ, with multiple quantified latency/CPU/throughput improvements.”

“AI/ML engineer at Cigna Healthcare building a production, HIPAA-compliant LLM-powered clinical insights platform that summarizes unstructured medical notes using a fine-tuned transformer + RAG on AWS. Demonstrates strong end-to-end MLOps and cloud optimization (distillation, Spot/Lambda/Auto Scaling) with quantified outcomes (~28% accuracy lift, ~40% less manual review, ~25% lower ops cost) and strong clinician-facing explainability via SHAP and dashboards.”

“Founder of an LLC operating as a consulting firm providing fractional CTO services to startups, giving them parallel exposure to multiple early-stage companies. Has direct experience with MVP development, building org structures from scratch, and supporting early fundraising, and is exploring a pivot from consulting into a scalable product business while staying engaged with the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

“Azure cloud platform engineer with strong enterprise Linux operations background who designs multi-region HA/DR on Azure (and AWS) using Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, AKS autoscaling, and geo-replicated Azure SQL. Built secure Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for .NET/Python microservices to AKS/VMs and provisions full environments via Terraform modules with remote state, drift checks, and staged rollouts; has not directly owned IBM Power/AIX at scale.”

“Currently at Huntington Bank, built a production-grade RAG system that helps business/operations teams get grounded answers from large volumes of internal enterprise documents. Owns ingestion and FastAPI backend, tuned hybrid BM25+vector retrieval and chunking for relevance, and evaluates reliability with metrics and observability (LangSmith, CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana) while partnering closely with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Cloud/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of AWS EKS Kubernetes platforms built and upgraded via Terraform, including AWS networking/security, EBS/EFS/S3 storage integration, and reliability validation through CloudWatch plus Prometheus/Grafana. Also has on-prem VMware/vSphere administration experience and day-to-day hybrid on-prem-to-AWS operations (VPN/Direct Connect), with examples of resolving pod instability from an application memory leak and fixing a production connectivity drop via routing/firewall troubleshooting.”

Nikitha Kommidi

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection, NLP, and MLOps

6y exp

“Built a production real-time fraud detection and customer-support automation platform at Citibank, tackling extreme class imbalance (reported ~1:5000) and strict latency constraints. Combines hands-on MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow; Snowflake/Spark/S3 integrations; CI/CD model promotion) with cross-functional delivery to Risk & Compliance focused on interpretability and reducing false positives.”

HIMANSHU SHARMA

Screened

Mid-level AI Solutions Engineer specializing in enterprise GenAI and automation

Orlando, FL6y exp

“Built and shipped multiple production LLM/agentic systems, including an agentic RAG NL-to-SQL analytics app that cut manual reporting from 9 hours/week to 15 minutes by grounding on schema-aware retrieval and robust fallback/monitoring. Also implemented a LangChain supervisor-orchestrated enterprise IT automation agent that routes requests for search, identity validation, and action execution, and created a RAG search tool spanning Jira/Confluence/SharePoint for operations stakeholders.”

Sravanti Dandu

Screened

Mid-level Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS & Azure infrastructure automation

Arizona, USA6y exp

“Backend/platform engineer (American Express) who built a Flask-based orchestration layer to automate infrastructure provisioning and integrated Azure AD/JWT RBAC security. Strong in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance optimization (70%+ query-time reduction) and scalable async/event-driven architectures, including ML inference pipelines (SageMaker/Azure ML/Hugging Face) and high-throughput job queues (Celery/Redis) with reliability patterns like DLQs and idempotency.”

“Cloud-focused platform/infrastructure engineer centered on AWS and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience building EKS environments via Terraform/Terragrunt, bootstrapping clusters with Cilium and ArgoCD, and integrating persistent storage and backup tooling like EFS/EBS CSI and Velero. While no longer focused on on-prem or hybrid operations, they also bring prior VMware/Hyper-V and migration-to-AWS experience, making them strongest in modern cloud platform engineering roles.”

“Builder-minded founder who co-started Renew-IQ, an insurtech company that landed successful pilots with major insurance brokerages and wholesalers without raising capital. Demonstrated practical enterprise product judgment by overcoming adoption challenges through integration with required compliant systems, improving user satisfaction, communication, and efficiency.”

“Built a production LLM-powered diagnostic agent at Supermicro that automated triage of NVIDIA H100/H200 GPU cluster failures by parsing BMC/Redfish logs and recommending fixes from historical RMA data. Their work combined agent architecture, reliability engineering, and backend optimization, delivering a 30% reduction in resolution time and 50% lower database load.”

“Enterprise-minded builder who has owned complex, high-impact systems from discovery through stabilization, including a customer master data platform at AB InBev serving 2,000 sales reps across 13 countries. Also demonstrates strong AI product instincts, having built a first-place ReAct-style NYC property intelligence agent at IBM's AI Demystified Hackathon, while showing deep rigor in data quality, integrations, and production reliability.”

Pavan Punna

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, MLOps, and healthcare-fintech AI

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Built and owned a production GPT-4 RAG assistant for clinical and enterprise query resolution, taking it from initial experiment to deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Their work cut resolution time from 45 minutes to under 2 minutes, achieved roughly 95% accuracy, and scaled to thousands of additional monthly queries while emphasizing safety and trust in a sensitive clinical domain.”

premkumar narla

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, RAG, and enterprise ML systems

Chicago, IL5y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience at Morgan Stanley building production fraud detection and enterprise RAG systems. Stands out for owning systems end-to-end—from experimentation and deployment to monitoring and iteration—and for delivering measurable impact, including an 18% reduction in fraud false positives, 40% lower inference latency, and internal tooling that reduced model deployment time from days to hours.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a Python/FastAPI results API and deployed it on Kubernetes with Helm and GitHub Actions-driven CI/CD. Demonstrates strong production operations mindset across performance tuning, monitoring, safe rollouts/rollbacks, and phased migrations, plus hands-on Kafka streaming experience focused on ordering and idempotency.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer focused on data instrumentation and tracking-plan automation. They built an end-to-end publish architecture plus an MCP/agent workflow that turns PRDs, Figma files, and meeting transcripts into tracking plans and implementation-ready code, reportedly shrinking work from 4-5 days to minutes. They also show strong judgment around productionizing LLM systems, with tool-centric prompt design, backend guardrails, and human-in-the-loop controls for high-risk actions.”

Jared Alonzo

Screened

Mid-level Customer Engineer specializing in enterprise search and technical delivery

New York, NY7y exp

“Search-focused technical consultant/customer success engineer with 6+ years in B2B SaaS, supporting government, higher ed, mid-market, and enterprise customers including Fortune 500 brands like Mondelez, Hasbro, and Sanofi. Particularly strong in enterprise search architecture, personalization data design, and expansion use cases, with hands-on experience shaping solution decisions for retailers such as Snipes and Rue Gilt Groupe.”

“Series A startup engineer with broad full-stack ownership across backend, data, and frontend, including a real-time ingestion platform that scaled to 10x higher daily volume without downtime while cutting latency from minutes to seconds. Brings strong fintech and B2B SaaS experience building auditable, high-throughput systems for analysts, operations, and compliance teams in regulated environments.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building a SaaS analytics platform: FastAPI-based microservices with Redis caching and reliability patterns (RBAC, retries/backoff, centralized error handling). Also delivered AWS data pipelines (Glue/PySpark to Redshift) and owned real production incidents using CloudWatch/SNS, plus hands-on PostgreSQL query tuning on multi-million-row reporting workloads.”